Suggestions welcome.
Yesterday I was grocery shopping and a Mexican woman saw me picking up some green beans. She asked me how to prepare them, and in the conversation, she mentioned that the doctor had given her a diet plan for her daughter. She asked me what beets were and seemed to be real old-country Mexican. She told me that her daughter is 16 and weighs 320 pounds. I wanted to tell her to go to FTS, but doubted that she has a computer - then thought about giving her a book, but there's the language barrier - after I got home, I thought about the
Spanish version! It wouldn't do me any good now, but just in case I run into something similar (or maybe run into that woman again!), can anyone tell me if the
Spanish version takes in the culture difference as well as having the language translation?
I have some business card blanks and I'm going to put FTS information on them - in English and
Spanish- so I can give them out. I'm going to shop at the store where that woman was and keep an eye out for her. There are several reasons why I didn't talk to her about FTS yesterday - she had a DOCTOR's directions, was just getting started, and the culture and language thing being primary. The next time I run into a situation like that I want to be prepared!
